8vo, tobacco quarter cloth over blue grey textured paper boards, white titles, 148pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (2.50) with closed tear to front at spine panel, short closed tear to top edge and small loss to spine crown. Endpapers toned, faint chips to board corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The posthumously published spiritual autobiography of the English Catholic writer, artist and mystic. Houselander refers to herself as a ‘Rocking Horse Catholic’ rather than a cradle Catholic since she entered the Church at the age of six. Frontispiece photo of young Houselander, dust jacket illustrated by ‘Arno’ after a design by Houselander. From the personal library of Television frontman Tom Verlaine, songwriter, guitarist and book collector. A nice copy in mylar.